Inferno
By: Catherine Cho
Narrated by: Catherine Cho
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Inferno is the riveting memoir of a young mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband when she's involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward in New Jersey after a harrowing bout of postpartum psychosis.
This program is read by the author.
When Catherine Cho and her husband set off from London to introduce their newborn son to family... Read more
Great Demon Kings
By: John Giorno
Narrated by: Max Bellmore
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
*This program includes archival recordings of John Giorno reading his poems, and an excerpt from Pierre Huyghe's Sleeptalking*
A rollicking, sexy memoir of a young poet making his way in 1960s New York City.
When he graduated from Columbia in 1958, John Giorno was handsome, charismatic, ambitious, and eager to soak up as much of Manhattan's art... Read more
It Was All a Lie
By: Stuart Stevens
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and deeply personal exposé of how his party became what it is today
“A blistering tell-all history. In his bare-knuckles account, Stevens confesses [that] the entire apparatus of his Republican Party is built on a pack of... Read more
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
By: A.N. Wilson
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A lively and insightful biographical celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles Dickens, published in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his death.Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Dickens... Read more
View audiobookEliot Ness and the Mad Butcher
By: Max Allan Collins & A. Brad Schwartz
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In the spirit of Devil in the White City comes a true detective tale of the highest standard: the haunting story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final case–his years-long hunt for ""The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run,"" a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the Great Depression, and tormented Ness to his dying breath. ""A careening read... Read more
View audiobookMy Captain America
By: Megan Margulies
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author’s relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain America.
In the 1990s, Megan Margulies’s Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the “Wild Man of 96th Street,” who set fires under... Read more
Anya Seton
By: Lucinda H. MacKethan
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Anya Seton was the bestselling author of ten historical novels, including the masterpieces Katherine and The Winthrop Woman, which are still widely beloved over sixty years after their publication; yet there has never before been a book-length biography about this great American writer.
Ann Seton was born in 1904 the daughter of two celebrity... Read more
World of Our Fathers
By: Irving Howe
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 35 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. This is a "brilliant" account of their stories (the New York Times).
Though some moved on to Philadelphia, Chicago, and other... Read more
Being Lolita
By: Alisson Wood
Narrated by: Alisson Wood
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
A dark romance evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn to rewrite her own story.
“Have you ever read Lolita?”
So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson’s metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and... Read more
Making Oscar Wilde
By: Michele Mendelssohn
Narrated by: Leslie Howard
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil... Read more
View audiobookHeart of the Storm
By: Edward L. Fleming, Colonel
Narrated by: Adam Conner
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
During the course of a thirty-year career in helicopter rescue, Col. Edward Fleming led scores of high-risk missions, including rescue operations during the Halloween storm of 1991, described in The Perfect Storm, and the successful rescue of Dr. Jerri Nielsen from Antarctica. Flying helicopters is more dangerous than flying fixed-wing... Read more
View audiobookTwo Trees Make a Forest
By: Jessica J. Lee
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
An exhilarating, anti-colonial reclamation of nature writing and memoir, rooted in the forests and flatlands of Taiwan
A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew.
Lee hikes mountains home to... Read more
The Torture Machine
By: Flint Taylor
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 22 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
With his colleagues at the People’s Law Office (PLO), Flint Taylor has argued landmark civil-rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city’s corrupt political machine. The Torture Machine takes listeners from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred... Read more
View audiobookThe Fixed Stars
By: Molly Wizenberg
Narrated by: Erin Mallon
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our... Read more
View audiobookOur Lady of Perpetual Hunger
By: Lisa Donovan
Narrated by: Lisa Donovan
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Favorite Book for Southerners in 2020 by Garden & Gun
"Donovan is such a vivid writer—smart, raunchy, vulnerable and funny— that if her vaunted caramel cakes and sugar pies are half as good as her prose, well, I'd be open to even giving that signature buttermilk whipped cream she tops her desserts with a try.”—Maureen... Read more
Reconsidering Reagan
By: Daniel S. Lucks
Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
2021 Prose Award Finalist
A long-overdue and sober examination of President Ronald Reagan’s racist politics that continue to harm communities today and helped shape the modern conservative movement.
Ronald Reagan is hailed as a transformative president and an American icon, but within his twentieth-century politics lies a racial legacy that is... Read more
Blues from Laurel Canyon
By: John Mayall
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
John Mayall has played with them all: Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Andy Fraser, and the list goes on. Now, in his 80s, John continues to tour all over the world and perform to sold-out crowds. With an incredible blues career spanning over fifty years, rightly earning him the title the “Godfather of British... Read more
View audiobookGet Me To 21
By: Gabi Lowe
Narrated by: Gabi Lowe
Length: 17 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
After an extraordinary four-year battle, Gabi Lowe lost her beautiful, Talented 20-year-old Daughter, Jenna Lowe, on 8 June 2015 to pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare degenerative lung disease, following a double lung transplant.Jenna was young, bright and articulate. She was Lead SA's Youth Hero of the Year in 2015. Her death was mourned... Read more
View audiobookGestapo
By: Sven Hassel
Narrated by: Claude Roberval
Length: 14 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
« UN SVEN HASSEL EXTRAORDINAIRE, PEUT-ÊTRE LE MEILLEUR – UN SUCCÈS INTERNATIONAL À COUP SÛR » L'ÉCHO DE LA VENTE, France C'est comme si tout le terrain allait sauter en l'air. Une longue explosion retentissante secoue les lignes allemandes. C'est alors qu'on entend un cri infernal. Au travers des étincelles de feu, la silhouette de Petit-Frère... Read more
View audiobookBeautiful Lady
By: Geri Maroney
Narrated by: Melanie Taylor
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Hearing the words, “you have cancer” stops you in your tracks and changes your life forever. You will never be the same, and there is no turning back. The journey is long; sometimes it feels insurmountable. We are all intensely aware of the things that cancer takes from us, but we don’t often acknowledge the gifts it leaves behind; the rebirth... Read more
View audiobookNazi's op de vlucht gejaagd
By: Alles over historia
Narrated by: Relinde de Graaff
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Op 27 januari 1944 verklaart Stalin Leningrad voor bevrijd. Na een beleg van tweeënhalf jaar trekt de Wehrmacht zich terug. Het Rode Leger drijft Hitlers troepen in drie dagen 100 kilometer naar het westen. Generaal Govorov wil doorstoten naar Estland, maar de Duitsers gooien toch nog roet in het eten en het front zit weer muurvast. De nazi's... Read more
View audiobookHet derde Rijk van binnenuit
By: Alles over historia
Narrated by: Cindy Fabriek
Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Begin jaren 1930 staat Duitsland aan de rand van de afgrond. De bevolking is verbitterd, de armoede grijpt om zich heen en de werkloosheid rijst de pan uit. Veel Duitsers zien Adolf Hitler als de enige die het land uit de crisis kan loodsen. De nazileider maakt zich geliefd door het volk brood en werk te beloven en om wraak te roepen voor de... Read more
View audiobookDas Geheimnis des Dr. Alzheimer - Abridged
By: Jørn Precht
Narrated by: Jørn Precht
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Frankfurt am Main, 1901: Der verarmte Krankenpfleger Karl Walz träumt davon, Arzt zu werden und die geheimnisvolle neue Krankheit zu enträtseln, die das Gedächtnis seiner erst 50-jährigen Ziehmutter mehr und mehr zerstört. Er erhält die Chance, als Assistent des Psychiaters und Gerichtsgutachters Dr. Alois Alzheimer zu arbeiten, doch der... Read more
View audiobookTiger Battalion 507
By: Helmut Schneider
Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the little-known story of Heavy Panzer (Tiger) Battalion 507 told through the recollections of the men who fought with the unit.
The book was conceived during a reunion of the "507" at Rohrdorf in 1982, where it was agreed to set up an editorial committee under Helmut Schneider, himself a veteran of the battalion, to search for as many... Read more